Friday, March 26, 2010

EPITAPH - what will be yours?

An epitaph is a short text honoring a deceased person, strictly speaking that is inscribed on their tombstone or plaque, but also used figuratively. Some are specified by the dead person beforehand, others chosen by those responsible for the burial.

Here are a few Notable epitaphs -

Alexander the Great
"A tomb now suffices him for whom the entire world was not enough"

• Clyde Barrow (unknown) - 1909 - 1934
"Gone but not forgotten."

• Mel Blanc (by himself)1908 - 1989
"That's all, folks!"

• Andrew Carnegie (unknown)
"Here lies a man who knew how to enlist the service of better men than himself."

• Winston Churchill (unknown)
I am ready to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.


• Emily Dickinson (herself)
"Called back"

• Eazy-E (Eric Wright)
“We loved him a lot. But God loved him more.”

• Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty I'm Free At Last."

• Frank Nitti (unknown)1881 - 1943
"There is but no life without Death"

• Osho
"Never born, never died: visited the planet earth between December 11, 1931 and, January 19, 1990."

• William P. Rothwell (unknown) from Rhode Island:
"This is on me."

• Frank Sinatra (by himself) - 1915-1998
"The best is yet to come."

• Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov - 1729-1800
"Here lies Suvorov"

• Lucius Cornelius Sulla (by himself) - died 78 BC
"No better friend - No worse enemy"

• Kurt Vonnegut (himself) 1922 - 2007
"THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC"

• Harry Potter family's tomb (in the film)
"The last enemy that shall be defeated is death"

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